Use gorget in a sentence. a piece of armor to protect the throat. a collar. an article of clothing covering the neck and breast, formerly worn by women; wimple. a patch of color, often iridescent, on the throat of a bird, as on a male hummingbird.
Von Koenigseggâs bald pate and his mellifluous, lightly accented English, not to mention his headquarters on a remote, decommissioned military base, bring to mind a Bond villain. And the association is apt, for while von Koenigseggâs ambitions may not be malevolent, heâs nevertheless bent on world domination, at least in the realm of seven-figure supercars. The automobile industry is littered with the skeletons of failed startups driven by a single manâs all-consuming vision.
The three all have two things in common. They were all convicted by the notorious Nazi military courts of so-called Kriegsverrat -- treason committed by members of Hitler's Wehrmacht. And they all belong to the final group of Nazi military court victims who still haven't been rehabilitated in post-World-War-II Germany. But a new draft law -- presented to Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, in May -- aims to nullify all such treason convictions.